Enabling Broadband Educational Services

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Enabling Broadband Educational Services
Tilemachos Doukoglou, Ph.D. Head of OTE
Labs Dept. of Network Strategy
Architecture, General Directorate of
Technology OTE S.A.
Broadband Education Services, 11-12 June 2009,
Crete, Greece
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Who is OTE S.A.?
Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE
S.A.) is the incumbent telecommunications
provider in Greece, and together with its
subsidiaries forms one of the leading telecom
groups in Southeastern Europe.   OTE is among
the five largest listed companies, with respect
to capitalization, in the Athens Stock Exchange
and also trades on New York (NYSE) and London
(LSE) Stock Exchanges.   Following an agreement
between the Greek Government and Deutsche
Telekom, since 5th November 2008, each holds 25
plus one share in OTE s share capital. The OTE
Group offers a full range of products and
services, from broadband services, fixed and
mobile telephony, to internet access, satellite,
high-speed data communications and leased line
services. At present, OTE companies employ over
30,000 people in five countries (Greece, Romania,
Serbia, Bulgaria and Albania)
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OTE Group at a glance
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OTE -Academy

• OTE Academy, a joint-stock subsidiary of the
  OTE Group, was established in February 2005,
  primarily engaging in the provision of vocational
  Training/ Education at academic level.
• OTE Academys primary scope is
• To provide Education/ Training of high added
  value to the Groups workforce, thus contributing
  to its continuous Development and Professional
  excellence.
• To provide consistently evolving Vocational
  Training/ Education to the broader public and
  private sectors, by utilizing the Organization's
  know-how in the fields of Information Technology
  and Communications (ITC), the status of academic
  professionals and the expertise of executives
  from the general market.
• To establish the company within the general
  market as a provider of Vocational Training/
  Education in Communications technology at
  academic level.

OTE-Academy provides education on BROADBAND
subjects (infrastructure, technologies, products,
services, business) and Broadband Enabled
Education (on Foreign Languages and ICT subjects)
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OTEs Broadband Network

• Based on ADSL/ADSL2 technology
• Ethernet and ATM aggregation network
• IP/MPLS core network
• limited use of wireless technologies
• WiMAX based and
• Satellite based broadband access
• Finally COSMOTE operates a 3G (HSPA/HSDPA)
  broadband network

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Broadband Infrastructure in Numbers

• In terms of PoPs
• 1.453 active ADSL/ADSL2 PoPs
• 466 Ethernet-DSLAM PoPs 1401 ATM-DSLAM
  PoPs
• 225 SHDSL-DSLAM PoPs (subrack with SHDSL
  cards)
• In terms of Ports
• 1.493.040 ADSL/ADSL2 ports
• 853K ADSL2 ports in Ethernet-DSLAMs
• 640K ADSL/ADS2 ports in ATM-DSLAMs
• In terms of Services
• FAST INTERNET (1, 2, 4, 8 up-to-24 Mbps)
• IPTV (multicast video and Video On Demand)
• VoIP (non residential)
• IP-VPN
• Leased LInes
• 2Mbps/2Mbps (SHDSL)-Leased Lines

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OTEs Broadband networkcurrent deployment

• By the End of 2009 OTE plans
• ? 1.500 broadband PoPs (ADSL2/ADSL2)
• ? 1.550.000 DSL ports
• ? 900K Ethernet-DSLAM Ports
• ? 650K ATM-DSLAM Ports
• In terms of Services (end 2009)
• 2Mbps/256Kbps
• 8Mbps/384Kbps
• Up to 24Mbps/1Mbps
• VoIP (2nd line residential)
• IPTV (extension of geographical coverage)
• access to IP-VPN
• 2Mbps/2Mbps (SHDSL)-Leased Lines
• 4Mbps/4Mbps (SHDSL)-Leased Lines

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What Broadband Education Services Require?

• more upstream bandwidth (? )
• better bandwidth (Bit Error Rate or BER ? 10-9 ?)
• lower latency / jitter (? )
• Quality of Service - QoS (? )
• multicast / broadcast support (? )
• applications and platforms (?)

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Broadband Future is Fiber rich

• FTTx (where x Node, Cabinet, Building and
  finally Home)
• Architectures point to multipoint (P2MP) and
  point to point (P2P)
• TechnologiesVDSL2GPONEthernet(Combination)

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OTE has started planning
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Broadband Strategy is more thanTechnology

• Deep Fiber in the access Government (MTC)
  initiative FTTH project of Ministry of
  Communications Transport (P2P Ethernet for 2
  Million homes passed with 2.1 Billion cost)
• PPP (Private - Public sector - Partnership) /
  Funding structure tbd
• New Structure - Roles- Up to 3 Infrastructure
  Providers (passive access wholesale service)-
  Service Providers addressing retail customers
• Internal building/home cabling issues (possible
  subsidy)
• 8-year rollout plan
• Rights of Way (ROW) - Still under consultation
• Regulatory issues Regulator approach
• Roles issue (Infrastructure, Network and
  Application Service Provider)